My Account
Log in Registration
All
Cart
Highlights
Fiction Books
Non-Fiction Books
Children's Books
Rare Books
Music
DVD & Blu-Ray
Video Games
Category
Wishlists
Cart
All
Free Shipping in the UK
Trustpilot
Proud to be B-Corp

Conversations with the Dead Danny Lyon

Conversations with the Dead By Danny Lyon

Conversations with the Dead by Danny Lyon

Reviews:
£33.19
Condition - New
Only 2 left
New

Summary

A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal 1971 photobook, highly influential in the history of documentary photography.

Conversations with the Dead Summary

Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054 by Danny Lyon

A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal 1971 photobook, highly influential in the history of documentary photography.

Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the relationships Lyon built with the inmates. Revolutionary at the time of publication, it was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera.

This new edition has been updated with an afterward by Lyon himself detailing what happened to the inmates in the 40 years since the book was first published. It also offers new, unseen material including outtake images, audio recordings and newly commissioned texts on a specially created microsite as a free ibook edition of this landmark publication.

Features:
- A new afterward by Danny Lyon

Conversations with the Dead Reviews

The idea of conscience has been imbedded more deeply in Mr. Lyon's photographs than in those of all but a few of his contemporaries. -The New York Times

Conversations with the Dead is the purest expression of Lyon's human spirit. -Collector Daily

Lyon's black-and-white photographs of prisoners are so striking... they capture the experience of incarceration in a visceral way. -Collector Daily

To some, he's idealizing people who really are not good people at all - they're just criminals. But to Danny maybe they're good people who just never had a chance. -Larry McMurtry, The New York Times

beautiful, harrowing... a timely reissue -Vice

Conversations with the Dead reminds us that humanity is worth the fight. -Crave

a classic of insider reportage... Lyon was a pioneer of what might be called immersive photojournalism... over 40 years after its initial publication, the book retains its raw power and its lingering sense of sadness at lives wasted -The Observer

The resulting images are so vivid that you can practically smell and hear them. -Bookforum

The access he had is as fascinating as the photos. -Mother Jones

A photo essay that is remarkable for its uniqueness.-Black & White Photography

Masterpiece.-The Independent

Lyon's black-and-white photographs of prisoners are so striking... They capture the experience of incarceration in a visceral way.-PDN

A surprisingly emotional picture of life inside.-The Daily Telegraph

About Danny Lyon

Danny Lyon has long been considered one of the most original and influential documentary photographers and has produced numerous highly collectible photobooks, mounted solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, and won two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and ten National Endowment for the Arts awards. Lyon divides his time between New York State and New Mexico.

Other Danny Lyon photography books published by Phaidon include Danny Lyon: Memories of Myself (2009), Deep Sea Diver: An American Photographer's Journey in Shanxi, China (2011), and The Seventh Dog (2014).

Additional information

NPB9780714870519
9780714870519
071487051X
Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054 by Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon
New
Hardback
Phaidon Press Ltd
2015-09-07
204
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - Conversations with the Dead